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[OHIO—CUyAHOliA COUNTi] \
9 Ohio State Reports, 77.
mx parte Simeon Bushnell,
ex parte Charles Langs ton. [May, 1859]
These cases were brought on habeas corpus issued on the separate applications of Bushnell and Langs ton by order of the Hon» josiah Scott, a judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, in May, 1859, directed to David L. Wight- man, sheriff or Cuyahoga County, by whom, as was said, Bushnell and Langston were held in ciistody in the jail of that county and therefore unlawfully deprived of their liberty. The writs were returned with the persons of "Bushnell and Langston before the full bench of judges of the Supreme Court of Ohio In Columbus• The bench con¬ sisted of Joseph R. Swan, chief justice, and Jacob Brin*» kerhoff, Joseph Scott, Milton Sutliff and Wm« V. Peck, judges. Prom the return to the writs it appeared that Bushnell and Langston had been severally indicted and convicted in the U. S. District Court at Cleveland and sentenced to imprisonment In the jail of Cuyahoga County for violating a provision of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 in the rescue of a colored man named "John" claimed to be a fugitive slave whose service was due to his \ owner, and who was then in the custody of the owner »s agent to be rettirned to servitude. Dhder the writs the
release of Bushnell and Langston from imprisonment Was sought on the groxmd that the Fugitive Slave
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[OHIO—CUyAHOliA COUNTi] \
9 Ohio State Reports, 77.
mx parte Simeon Bushnell,
ex parte Charles Langs ton. [May, 1859]
These cases were brought on habeas corpus issued on the separate applications of Bushnell and Langs ton by order of the Hon» josiah Scott, a judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, in May, 1859, directed to David L. Wight- man, sheriff or Cuyahoga County, by whom, as was said, Bushnell and Langston were held in ciistody in the jail of that county and therefore unlawfully deprived of their liberty. The writs were returned with the persons of "Bushnell and Langston before the full bench of judges of the Supreme Court of Ohio In Columbus• The bench con¬ sisted of Joseph R. Swan, chief justice, and Jacob Brin*» kerhoff, Joseph Scott, Milton Sutliff and Wm« V. Peck, judges. Prom the return to the writs it appeared that Bushnell and Langston had been severally indicted and convicted in the U. S. District Court at Cleveland and sentenced to imprisonment In the jail of Cuyahoga County for violating a provision of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 in the rescue of a colored man named "John" claimed to be a fugitive slave whose service was due to his \ owner, and who was then in the custody of the owner »s agent to be rettirned to servitude. Dhder the writs the
release of Bushnell and Langston from imprisonment Was sought on the groxmd that the Fugitive Slave
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